Software Product Line Engineering - DAT165, 2009

Course code: DAT165
Examiner: Robert Feldt, Lecturer: Tony Gorschek, Lecturer: Richard Torkar, Lecturer/Assistant: Martin Ivarsson

Course Schedule

News

Extra re-exam will take place on 20th of August 2010 between 14:00-18:00 in room 6128 in DoIT/EDIT house on Chalmers Johanneberg campus
Re-exam will take place on 9th of April 2010 between 14:00-18:00 in V-huset
Exam from 20091217.
Exam review from 16:00-18:00 on Friday 20100115 in room 4128 in ED
Slides from Ina Schaefer's guest lecture are listed for the 091208 lecture below.
Exam from last year is here. There is no guarantee that this years exam will have the same shape, length, number or style of questions as last year's exam. NOTE that there can be questions in the exam based on all of: course text books, papers used in the course as well as from the lecture notes / slides. You should prepare accordingly.
Slides from lecture 9 now added below.
Pohl and Cohen papers on SPL testing added to L9 below.
Gorschek's Tech Transfer paper (mentioned in class) can be found here.
Dr. Ina Schaefer (here at Chalmers/SET) has announced several master thesis topics related to SPLE: 1, 2, 3, 4
All but one group has found a company and interview subjects.
Send email to examiner with name and email to members of your assignment group. Min 4 and max 5 people per group. Groups will be listed here.
Course starts 27/10 10:00 in EL41. Be there if you intend to take the course!
Home page from last year can be found here.

Dates and Deadlines

Below you can see the date, time, room and themes for the lectures and support sessions. In the column marked "SPLE" you can see the parts of the main course book that are relevant for that lecture. In the column marked "SPLIA" you can see the parts of the support book that are relevant for that lecture. You are expected to have read the SPLE parts before the lecture. The lectures themselves are more based on the material in SPLIA and additional material. This way you get a broader total knowledge. Lecture slides below are from last years lectures and will only be updated after this years lecture have been held. You should note that there will be changes so it is not enough just to study from home.

You can also see dates for the written exam and the deadlines for the assignment. Be sure not to miss any deadlines; you will fail if you do.

Date & Time	Room	Theme	SPLE	SPLIA
27/10 10:00-11:45	EL41	L1: Introduction (rto, mi) [PDF]	ch 1&2	ch 1
30/10 10:00-11:45	EC	L2: Architecture & Variability (rto) [PDF]	ch 4-6	ch 3
3/11 10:00	---	--- Email with group members name and email to examiner ---	---	---
3/11 10:00-11:45	EF	L3: Variability, scoping and domain analysis (rto) [PDF] [Ommering paper]	ch 7	ch 2, 3 & 17
6/11 10:00-11:45	EC	Cancelled, see 11/11 below
6/11 13:15-15:00	EL42	S1: Support for starting up assignment (rto) [PDF]		ch 4 & 12
11/11 10:00-12:00	MA	L4+L5: Processes and SPL + Organisations and SPL (tgo)	ch 9&15 + ch 19&20
11/11 13:15-15:00	EA	L6: SW Process Assessment / SW Process Improvement (SPA/SPI) (tgo) [PDF]
13/11 10:00-11:45	MA	S2: Support for assignment (mi) [PDF]		ch 4, 5 & 13
17/11 10:00-11:45	MA	S3: Support for assignment (tgo) [TXT]
17/11 13:15-15:00	EL41	S4: Support for assignment (tgo)
20/11 10:00-11:45	EC	L7: Business Issues for SPL (mi) [PDF]		ch 2 & 11
21/11 12:00	---	--- DEADLINE: Company info email to Tony Gorschek ---	---	---
24/11 10:00-11:45	EF	L8: Transitioning to SPL (mi) [PDF]	ch 21	ch 8, 10 & 15
24/11 13:15-15:00	EL41	S5: Support for assignment (mi)
28/11 12:00	---	--- DEADLINE: Case study design emailed to Tony Gorschek ---	---	---
30/11 10:00-11:45	HB4	L9: Testing and SPL, Challenges, Domain & Application Engineering revisited, Support for assignment (rto) [PDF] [TXT] [Cohen paper, Pohl paper]	ch 8,10-13,16-18&22	ch 6,16&14
30/11 13:15-15:00	EL42	S6: Support for assignment (rto)
8/12 10:00-11:45	EF	L9 continues (with guest lecture by Dr. Ina Schaefer) + S7: Support for assignment (rto) [Ina PDF]
17/12 14:00-18:00	Campus Johanneberg	Written exam
8/1 2010 09:00	---	--- DEADLINE: Complete Assignment Report as PDF to Robert Feldt ---	---	---
15/1 08:00-17:00		Presentation of projects / assignment (rf)

Course documents and material

Examination

Assignment - Industrial Case Study, 12-15 pages IEEE Conference Proceedings format

Assignment description (Read it closely!)
Papers that your study should be based on:

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

Formatting your report:

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

NDA template in case the company wants you to sign one and do not have their own (Only available in Swedish; talk to the teachers if you need to sign one and want a summary in English):

NDA template [PDF]

Written Exam, 17/12, 14:00-18:00, V-huset