SSE05 Report and Expectations

Objectives

In their written report, I expect students to:

• Demonstrate the ability to study published research results and convey the central ideas in a readable form.
• Demonstrate the ability to compare and contrast different research ideas.
• Devise an appropriate means of evaluating the usefulness of their subject of study, for example by implementing a software prototype using an advanced technology or principle.
• When appropriate, demonstrate the ability to compare their subject of study to mainstream solutions, e.g. Java.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze the important issues within the topic of the report, to convey this analysis in written form, and to use this analysis to focus their project work.

SSE05 Course Description

SSE05: Advanced Topics in Software Engineering (5 ECTS)

Prerequisites:

SSE01 and SSE02 (or equivalent).

Aims:

To give the students general experience in studying research topics and moreover provide insights into a specific, advanced topic in software engineering.

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• independently find literature on a specific research topic
• write a survey covering a specific research topic
• evaluate the usefulness of advanced software technologies by building simple prototypes

Synopsis:

Students will be provided with an initial introduction to an advanced topic in software engineering in the form of a research paper or similar source. Students must then find related literature and write a short survey of the area. The technique or technology described in the research paper(s) must then be evaluated by the student by building a simple prototype demonstrating the supposed usefulness of the technique/technology.

Concretely, students can work on various topics such as:

• Agent-oriented programming (e.g., JADE)
• Aspect-oriented programming (e.g., AspectJ)
• High-level programming for embedded systems (e.g., Sun Spot)
• Concurrency (e.g., patterns, language support)
• Formal specifications (e.g., JML)
• Dynamic languages (e.g., Smalltalk, Python, Ruby)
• Software architectural issues (e.g., object-oriented frameworks, component-based development, advanced separation of concerns)

Other topics proposed by students may be available at the discretion of the teacher.

Evaluation:

Each student submits an individual written report describing the survey and the experimental results. Although projects can be done in groups, surveys should have an individual emphasis on specific parts of the topic, and evaluation of the usefulness of the technique/technology based on the experimental work must be done individually.

Course type:

Individual studying of literature with overall supervision from the teacher, experimental work done in groups or individually by the preference of the students.

Teaching period:

Third quarter.

Responsible teacher:

Ulrik Pagh Schultz

Literature:

Remarks:

This course is a one-shot replacement for the standard SSE05 course due to resource problems.