Software Engineering Lab
Basic introduction to principles of software engineering including unit testing, test driven development, refactoring, CI, and automation.
Paper
We published the paper Teaching Software Engineering As Programming Over Time in the IEEE/ACM 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for the Next Generation which contains further details on this course.
Guest Speakers
I am very grateful to all guest speakers who took the time to prepare and give a talk in this course. The following table lists all guest speakers and their talks.
| Speaker | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Kent Beck | December TBD, 2024 | TBD |
| Phil Nash | June 5, 2024 | Testing Fundamentals |
| Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) | December 12, 2023 | Basic Test Driven Development |
| Klaus Iglberger | January 9, 2023 | What is C++? - A Historical Perspective |
| Titus Winters | June 13, 2022 | Software Engineering - Principles aka SWE Book Theses |
Course Description
Software engineering skills of any engineer become more important with the ongoing digitization and automation. Software engineering means not only delivering an implementation that fulfills the requirements and generates correct results. A second highly important aspect is to deliver software that can be maintained by multiple contributors, over months, years or even decades. This lifetime aspect and the number of developers contributing to the software introduces additional requirements and challenges in the development process. Software has to be testable, readable, and extendable. Concepts such as unit tests, code reviews, and continuous integration support writing software with these characteristics.
Details at the chair’s webpage.
Supervised Years
- WS24/25
- SS24
- WS23/24
- SS23
- WS22/23
- SS22
- WS21/22
- SS21
Acknowledgement
I learned a lot while creating this course at the Chair of Media Technology. I want to thank Christoph Bachhuber and Kevin Meyer for their contributions and discussions while working on this course. I also want to thank Prof. Eckehard Steinbach for giving me the freedom and support in creating and running this course.