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Students, please read. PROD is being replaced by COSS. Teaching in the winter semester at FAU will start on Nov 2nd, 2020. We will be teaching two classic courses, Advanced Design and Programming (ADAP) and Nailing your Thesis (NYT), our course on how to perform research. All courses will be hel... Continue

Abstract: Code review is one of the most important quality assurances of today's software development in open source as well as in industrial context. A side effect of reviewing code is the possibility of sharing knowledge between developers. While this is a common finding in software engineering r... Continue

Abstract: An open source license specifies all rights granted and obligations imposed to the user of the open source software. However, researcher and practitioners are faced with a large diversity of open source licenses. This can lead to a lot time and effort spent on examining the different lice... Continue

Abstract: As the software industry grows fast, the competition to produce high-quality software as quickly as possible, made the reusability of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) famous, but with features come challenges and risks. The main issue with FLOSS is license compliance among the ... Continue

Abstract: The JValue Open Data Service (ODS) is an open source application, founded and developed by the professorship of Open Source Software of the Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU). The application aims to become the go-to place for developers and data scientists around th... Continue

Abstract: In a world of “Big Data” and data transparency “open data” might not be considered as an unknown term anymore. As the name suggests, it describes data, that is commonly available and free to use for everyone. The vision of the software “JValue Open Data Service (ODS)” is to provide a soli... Continue

Following-up on last week's online presentation on how to get a doctoral degree (Doctor title, Ph.D.) in Germany, below please find a pre-recoded video of the session. https://youtu.be/X8yaN_wGPvw In addition, you might want to browse the slides, however, the video provides significantl... Continue

On July 1st 2020, we were happy to have Alexander Kaden of codemanufaktur GmbH on Continuous Integration (CI) as part of the AMOS Projects. Alexander is a Senior Java Developer & Software Architect in codemanufaktur. He was joined by Anne-Kristin Schramm who leads the company's recruitment and ... Continue

On July 15th 2020, we were honored to have Dirk Stockmann speak to us on How to Scale Agile Methods. Dirk is the Head of R&D for the Digital Grid Sotfware Unit at Siemens Schweiz AG. His passion on customer-centric, value-driven decision-making and continuous, relentless improvement led to a ve... Continue

AMOS is our course on agile software development. Students form teams of seven people and perform a semester-long project together with an industry partner. The industry partner provides the project idea and serves as a domain expert, and we coach and ensure that the learning objectives are reached... Continue