Software Product Line Engineering - DAT165, lp2, 2010/2011

Course code: DAT165
Examiner/Lecturer: Robert Feldt, Lecturers: Tony Gorschek, Martin Ivarsson

News

Presentation of Industry Case Studies 14th of January 09:00-15:00 are mandatory!

Location: Conference room 520, 5th floor, House Jupiter, Chalmers Lindholmen
1 hr per group divided as: 25 min presentation by group, 15 min questioning by opponents, 15 min discussion in class, 5 min pause
Contact the group you will be opponents on directly to get their report
Schedule:

9-10, Group 1, Opponent: Emil Börjesson
10-11, Group 3, Opponents: Group 1
11-12, Group 5, Opponents: Groups 3 & 4
13-14, Group 4, Opponents: Group 6
14-15, Group 6, Opponents: Group 5

Slides for Tony's lectures are now up!
You should contact Tony Gorschek for feedback and questions about your case study!
Study instructions for each lecture and book as well as examples of written exams from previous years can be found on last years course page.
NOTE! NO Lecture on 3/12. Will be next week on 10/12 in ES53!
NOTE! Support session 24/11 starts 10:30 instead of 10:00. Same room.
Be sure to prepare 2 slides for your MAX 6 min presentation at the workshop. The slides should only give the main idea (and supporting ideas) of your topic and relate them to SPLE. See assignment description for details.
NDA template added. Be sure to sign and bring to meeting with company.
Note! Workshop moved to 23rd of Nov and lecture 9 canceled. See updated schedule below!
Check list of topics for "Reuse" assignment below. I have marked everyone that submitted on time.
Rooms for the lectures on the 15-16th of November has now been added in the schedule.
Note that the papers for the group assignment are now listed below (in the assignment section on the bottom of the page).
List of groups for group assignment ICS.
List of topics that have been taken for Assignment "Reuse". Be SURE to check it before you email Robert your topic idea; it should not overlap exactly with an already listed one!
Paper on status and future of SW Reuse (gives input to choice of theme for "Reuse" assignment): [Frakes2005]
Assignment description for "Reuse" posted.
Assignment description for "Industry Case Study" posted.
Course starts 26/10 13:15 in ES51. Be there if you intend to take the course!

Dates

Below you can see the date, time, room and themes for the lectures. In the column marked "SPLE" you can see the parts of the main course book (by Pohl et al) relevant for that lecture, in the column marked "SPLIA" you can see the parts of the supporting book and in the "Papers" column the relevant research papers. You are expected to study these chapters and papers that are relevant for a lecture around the time of that lecture (preferably before attending the lecture!). Lectures will not be directly based on the books and papers but will add additional material. The ICS acronym below refers to the group Assignment "Industry Case Study". The individual assignment on Reuse is called "Reuse" below.

Date & Time	Room	Theme	Papers	SPLE	SPLIA
26/10 13:15-15:00	ES51	L1: Course and SPLE introduction (rf) [slides, video]	[Frakes2005]	chapter 1&2	chapter 1
29/10 10:00-11:45	ES53	L2: Architecture & Variability (rf) [slides, video]		chapter 4-6	chapter 3
--- 1/11 14:00 ---	---	--- DEADLINE: Email with ICS group members name & email to examiner ---	---	---	---
2/11 13:15-15:00	ES51	L3: Variability, scoping & domain analysis (mi) [slides]	[Chen2010, PhilipsCase]	chapter 7	ch. 2, 3, 17
--- 3/11 09:00 ---	---	--- DEADLINE: Email with theme and ref to 3 papers for Reuse assignment (rf) ---	---	---	---
3/11 10:00-11:45	EL42	S1: Support for Assignment "Reuse" (mi) [slides]
9/11 13:15-15:00	ES51	L4: Processes and SPL (mi) [slides]
10/11 10:00-11:45	EL42	S2: Support for Assignment "Reuse" (mi)
12/11 10:00-11:45	ES53	L5: Processes and Organizational issues (mi) [slides]
--- 15/11 09:00 ---	---	--- DEADLINE: Report for Reuse assignment emailed to Robert ---	---	---	---
15/11 10:00-11:45	ES52	L6: SW Process Assessment / Improvement (tg) [slides]
15/11 13:15-15:00	ES52	L7: Business for SPL (tg) [slides]
16/11 08:00-09:45	ES51	L8: Transitioning to SPL (tg) [slides]	[Hetrick2006]
17/11 10:00-11:45	EL42	S3: Support for Assignment Industry Case Study (mi) [slides]	[Petersen2009]
--- 17/11 14:00 ---	---	--- DEADLINE: Company info email ICS (tg) ---	---	---	---
19/11 10:00-11:45	ES53	!!NO Workshop or Lecture 9! Workshop on 23/11 instead!!
23/11 13:15-15:00	ES51	Workshop on Assignment "Reuse" (rf)
24/11 10:00-11:45	EL42	S4: Support for Assignment Industry Case Study (rf)
--- 24/11 14:00 ---	---	--- DEADLINE: Case study design ICS emailed to Tony ---	---	---	---
1/12 10:00-11:45	EL42	S5: Support for Assignment Industry Case Study (mi)
3/12 10:00-11:45	CANCELLED!	CANCELLED!
8/12 10:00-11:45	EL42	S6: Support for Assignment Industry Case Study (mi)
10/12 10:00-11:45	ES53	L10: Testing and SPL, Summary (rf)
16/12 14:00-18:00	Campus Johanneberg, "Maskin-salar"	Written exam
--- 7/1 14:00 ---	---	--- DEADLINE: Complete assignment report ICS emailed to Tony (tg) ---	---	---	---

Course documents and material

Examination will be based on the main course book, the papers listed in the Dates and Deadlines table above and the material presented in lectures as well as in your assignments. The supporting book is optional but will be important to study to get the higher grades. To pass the course it is extremely important that you read all the course material, participate in lectures and are active in and finish assignments. If you do not you will fail! Remember that this is a master level course and requires considerably more than most bachelor level courses.

Main course book: Bockle, Pohl and van der Linden. Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles and Techniques, Springer verlag, 2005.
Support book: van der Linden, Schmid and Rommes. Software Product Lines in Action: The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering, Springer verlag, 2007.
Papers linked to above in the table
Lecture notes as added above in the table after each lecture name (added a few days after the lecture has been held)

Assignments

The course is examined through a group assignment, one individual assignment and a final, individual, written exam.

Papers that your study should be based on:

Fritsch et al, "Product Line Potential Analysis", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004, Springer verlag.

All your reports for assignments and exercises should be formatted using the IEEE Conference Proceedings format (except for the SRS in the group assignment, see its description for details):

Author Guidelines (IEEE Conference Proceedings format)
MS Word format file
Latex format files

and submitted in an email.