Sessions & Deadlines
Note: All sessions printed in red colour are mandatory sessions. If you miss more than one session without showing a medical certificate, you may fail the seminar.
- 14 February - Introductory Session 1 (Dietmar Pfahl) - in-class / no online option
- Session1-Slides-2024
- Session1-Video-2024
- Mapping Studies in SE:
- Kai Petersen, Robert Feldt, Shahid Mujtaba, and Michael Mattsson (2008) Systematic mapping studies in software engineering. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE'08). BCS Learning & Development Ltd., Swindon, GBR, 68–77. [https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EASE2008.8]
- Kai Petersen, Sairam Vakkalanka, Ludwik Kuzniarz (2015) Guidelines for conducting systematic mapping studies in software engineering: An update. Information and Software Technology, Volume 64, Pages 1-18. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2015.03.007]
- 21 February - Introductory Session 2 (Dietmar Pfahl) - in-class / no online option
- Session2-Slides-2024
- How to get literature (journal articles and conference/workshop papers) for free: From within the university network it should work automatically with ACM DL, IEEE Explore, SpringerLink, Scopus, etc. When you are outside the university network, you must first establish a VPN connection to the university. Information on how to establish/ise VPN can be found here: https://wiki.ut.ee/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=17105590
- Examples of Systematic Mapping Studies (SMSs) in SE:
- Examples of Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) in SE - to illustrate the difference to SMSs:
- SLS Example 1 - Note that there is a small issue in the structure of Section 4.2
- SLS Example 2
- SLS Example 3
- SLS Example 4 -- De Silva, L.M.H., Rodríguez-Triana, M.J., Chounta, IA. et al. Curriculum analytics in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review. J Comput High Educ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-024-09410-8
- Example of a MSc Thesis containing an SLS
- Example of a Grey Literature Survey
- 22 February - Deadline for identifying topic and requesting presentation time slot (submit as direct message to Dietmar Pfahl via Slack before 23:59)
The following will be updated once it is clear how many students have registered and whether all registered students are 1st year students.
- 28 February & 06 March & 13 March & 20 March - Individual Consultation (optional & on request by student only - first come first serve principle) - Online or face-to-face in my office (room 3007)
- 25 March - Deadline for submitting draft reports & slides of Presentations 1 (submit before 23:59)
- 27 March - Presentations 1: 1st year students (work in pairs) - in-class / no online option
- Session3-Slides-2024
- Note: The presentation session is followed by a 30 min quiz (in Moodle). All students who did not give a presentation today must take the quiz. In the quiz you must evaluate each of the given presentations with regards to content, form, timing, and style of presentation. Justifications must be given.
- 01 April - Deadline for submitting draft reports & slides of Presentations 2 (submit before 23:59)
- 03 April - Presentations 2: 1st year students (work in pairs) - in-class / no online option
- Session4-Slides-2024
- Note: The presentation session is followed by a 30 min quiz (in Moodle). All students who did not give a presentation today must take the quiz. In the quiz you must evaluate each of the given presentations with regards to content, form, timing, and style of presentation. Justifications must be given.
- 08 April - Deadline for submitting draft reports & slides of Presentations 3 (submit before 23:59)
- 10 April - Presentations 3: 1st year students (work in pairs) - in-class / no online option
- Session5-Slides-2024
- Note: The presentation session is followed by a 30 min quiz (in Moodle). All students who did not give a presentation today must take the quiz. In the quiz you must evaluate each of the given presentations with regards to content, form, timing, and style of presentation. Justifications must be given.
- 15 April - Deadline for submitting draft reports & slides of Presentations 4 (submit before 23:59)
- 17 April - Presentations 4: 1st year students (work in pairs) - in-class / no online option
- Session6-Slides-2024
- Note: The presentation session is followed by a 30 min quiz (in Moodle). All students who did not give a presentation today must take the quiz. In the quiz you must evaluate each of the given presentations with regards to content, form, timing, and style of presentation. Justifications must be given.
- 22 April - Deadline for submitting draft reports & slides of Presentations 5 (submit before 23:59)
- 24 April - Presentations 5: 1st year students (work in pairs) - in-class / no online option
- Session7-Slides-2024
- Session7-Slides-2024 (Part 2)
- Note: The presentation session is followed by a 30 min quiz (in Moodle). All students who did not give a presentation today must take the quiz. In the quiz you must evaluate each of the given presentations with regards to content, form, timing, and style of presentation. Justifications must be given.
- No seminar on 01 May - national holiday
- 8 and 15 May - Individual Consultation for final reports (optional & on request by student only - first come first serve principle)
- NEW: 20 May - Deadline for submitting final reports (submit before 23:59) - Note: the old deadline was May 27. In case someone has a problem with the earlier deadline, please send me a direct message in Slack Before APril 24 (last seminar session).