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If you intend to take AMOS in SS 2012 please take this survey. It will remain open until the last week before the semester starts. Please register for AMOS or PROD on StudOn as soon as possible. Both classes are oversubscribed. If you got "wait-listed" it doesn't mean you won't get in. We will ma...

Should we teach in English or German? Or both? But then, which class in which language? This question is at the center of an on-going debate, and it is a hard question to answer. Here is how the Open Source Research (and Teaching) Group is looking at the situation. The fundamental assumption i...

Johannes Link just finished his Test-driven Development classes (both introduction and advanced methods) at FAU, facing an audience of regular students, Ph.D. students, and industry participants. The class evaluation shows that not only did participants enjoy the the class but were asking for...

Johannes Link's course on test-driven development (TDD) is well underway at FAU. He finished the introductory part last week to a full class. Please find some photo impressions below. Thanks, Johannes, for teaching us!    

Today, a colleague confided in me: "Dirk, if I were a student, I wouldn't attend your classes. I never liked to speak up and would rather cram for an exam at the end of the semester rather than open my mouth in class." Well, that was quite the bummer. However: We teach to make the most of ...

Our two main courses for SS 2012 are: The AMOS Project (AMOS), StudOn, impressions from prior instances Product Management (PROD), StudOn, impressions from prior instances You can now register using StudOn.

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a small-scale process for software development which embraces design, programming and unit testing in a unified approach. TDD is one of the key practices of Agile development. This seminar teaches FAU students and personnel basic and advanced techniques for practicin...

FAU students are already getting excited about Christa Schwanninger's upcoming talk on Product Line Engineering in our Software Architecture class. The talk is free and open to the public!

Today we discussed JP Morgan Chase's presentation of "technology in banking" at Stanford's EE380 class. Discussion notes from the blackboard below, as usual. Also, in the lower part of the blackboard, the power law result of a recent paper on the distribution of coupling relationships in Java. ...

Today in the Software Architecture seminar we watched and discussed: Richard Monson-Haefel: 10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know Dan Ingalls on Forty Years of Fun with Computers For the first talk, please find the black board notes below.