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For the last Winter Semester, a large German software vendor had posed the following question to us: Please help us determine whether we have accumulated too much technical debt (and should invested now in quality improvement) or whether we can keep focusing on developing new functionality firs...

Category: 3.3.B NYT

Abstract: The concept of competencies started to grow over the last years and has now arrived in the fast growing field of Free/Libre/Open Source software development (FLOSS). Competencies have been defined, which are necessary for an successful career as an FLOSS developer and also became impo...

Category: 4.3 Finished Theses

As we are gearing up for the 2014 AMOS Projects, here are some positive comments from the student evaluations from prior years. AMOS was held as a lecture in 2009 and as a lab course four times thereafter. In 2013 we started adding industry partners to the projects. The comments are about the lab co...

Category: 9 General

In summer semester of 2014 we are introducing some changes to our weekly colloquium, which begins on April 7, 2014. Previously, the colloquium was held weekly during the term. Starting summer semester 2014, the colloquium will not be held every week but only when we have live presentations. T...

Category: 3.3.9 KOLL