Dear participants,

We now have activated your repositories for the individual phase.
All the documents mentioned in today's lecture (i.e., task specification for the individual phase, project-description template, UML class diagram of the reference implementation, example configuration file) are already available in the CMS under Materials.

Office Hours will be held starting this afternoon. Office Hours are daily from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 16:00. To participate in the Office Hours, please open a ticket in our ticket system and briefly describe your question. A tutor will then call you on MS Teams and answer your questions. Tickets for the Office Hour that are created outside the office hour timeslots (e.g., too early) will not be processed in the Office Hour at all.

Best,
The SE-Lab team.

Dear participants,

Over the weekend, we will evaluate your project of the group phase on an individual basis per group and group member. Thereby, we take into account the number of tests passed and mutants found.

On Monday, the individual phase of this year's SE Lab starts.
There will be a lecture on Monday morning at 9:30, in which the individual phase will be presented.

You will receive information about passing or failing the group phase before the individual phase starts.

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

Tomorrow (Friday, October 07), the group phase ends at 23:59 CEST.

To provide you with the best possible support, the tutors have made themselves available for an extended Office Hour tomorrow. That is, the tutors will be available for questions via our ticket system for the Office Hours tomorrow from 14:00 to 23:59 CEST.

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

From now on, all our tests are running against your implementation. Please note that we stop running the tests as soon as your server crashes 10 times (SERVER_FAIL).

In addition, from now on, we also run your system tests against our mutants. Please note that your system tests will only be run against our mutants if all your tests have previously passed against our reference implementation.

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants

Starting today, we are offering Office Hours daily from 14:00 to 17:00. To participate in the Office Hour, please open a ticket in our ticket system and briefly describe your problem. The ticket system is linked in the CMS under Information. A tutor will then join your group call in MS Teams and answer your questions.

When opening a ticket, you have to select whether your ticket belongs to the Bug Challenge or whether it is a ticket for the Office Hour. Tickets for the Office Hour that are created outside the office hour timeslots (e.g., too early) will not be processed in the Office Hour at all.

In addition, we have uploaded an updated version of the "change of requirements" specification in which we have fixed further inconsistencies.

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

From now on, we run our basic tests on your implementation as well as your tests on our reference implementation. Our basic tests test simple behavior of your server. Next week, we will add more advanced tests as well and run your tests against our mutants. Please note that we only test changes that you have pushed to your main branch. Please also note that we stop running the tests as soon as your server crashes 10 times (SERVER_FAIL).

If you think that one of your failing tests is actually correct, you can submit a bug challenge for your team. To do so, please open a ticket in our ticket system and briefly describe your problem. The ticket must contain the name of your test, as well as a description of the test. The ticket system is linked in the CMS under Information. (Tickets that do not belong to the bug challenge will be ignored.) Provided you submit a correct bug challenge, you will get an additional test run on the server as well as the opportunity to submit more challenges on the same day. If it is a buggy test, you will not be able to submit a new challenge that day, but you will get feedback on the bug of your test.

To make testing easier for you, Niklas and Julian have written a Config Creator that allows you to easily create configuration files for your tests. The Config Creator is linked under Information in the CMS. There will be also a brief explanation in the forum on how to use it.

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

Tomorrow, Tuesday September 27, a tutorial on how to write system tests will take place at 14:00 in the Günter-Hotz Lecture Hall (building E2.2), as well as online as a MS-Teams Live-Event (you can find the link in the timetable in the CMS).

As with previous tutorials, the tutorial on system tests will not be recorded.

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week, the design defense will take place as face-to-face sessions at the university. You will be assigned a specific date and room by your tutor. Be in front of the corresponding room in time for this appointment.
In case of illness, as always, please inform your tutor immediately and submit a medical certificate as soon as possible. We will then try to find an individual catch-up date for the affected individuals afterwards, based on case-by-case decisions.

Please also note that, if possible, each group member should bring a laptop to view your design. In addition, each team member should have pens with them. Also, do not forget to bring your student ID card.

It is possible that individual group members will be re-examined in the evening on the day of your design defense. This will be communicated to the persons concerned by the reviewer after the design defense.

Also, please note that no later than one hour before your assigned design-defense appointment, all required files (i.e., class diagram, three sequence diagrams, state diagram, and the time and work plan) must be in PDF format in the group repository and tagged with the tag specified in the specification document.

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

The group assignment is already visible on your personal status page in the CMS. On-site groups should already have met their tutor in the last minutes. For online groups, you will be added to your MS-Teams team in the afternoon, so please stay available online for your mandatory attendance such that you can meet with your online group as soon as the MS-Teams teams are available.

In the meanwhile, you can already read the task specification for the group phase, which is available in the CMS now (see Materials: Task Specification).

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

We have already uploaded the tutorial sheet T5 for the practical tutorials on Monday, September 12. To prepare for the practical tutorial, please work on the tasks 1 and 2(a-e) already beforehand on your own. (If you have not yet signed up on our GitLab, you cannot work on parts of the tutorial sheet yet. In this case, please sign up on our GitLab so as soon as possible; you will be assigned to the repository needed for the tutorial sheet no later than Monday). You will need your GiLab account for the practical tutorial as well as for the group phase.

On Monday, September 12, there will be a regular lecture at 09:30.

In the second lecture time slot (11:30 to 13:00), at the beginning, the tutors will brievely present best and bad practices for the group phase (online participants can use the MS Teams link for the second lecture slot). For the remaining time of this time slot, the tutors will offer an office hour to help the on-site participants with technical problems regarding the tutorial sheet T5. (This office hour cannot be offered for the online participants, as dealing with indivdiual technical problems is not possible online. Instead, online participants can use the online tutorial in the afternoon to ask for help on technical problems.)

The tutorials on Monday afternoon will take place as usual. However, the room assignment for on-site participants has changed. Please check again which room you have been assigned to for the tutorial on your personal status page.

(Regarding the results of the entry exam, we will notify you as soon as the exam correction has finished.)

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

The students' council of the computer-science department hosts a game night for participants of the SE Lab tomorrow, Friday, September 09, at 18:00 in building E1.7:
https://cs.fs.uni-saarland.de/en/2022/09/06/gamenight-software-engineering-lab/

This is an independent event hosted by the students' council for you to get to know each other.

Best,
The SE-Lab team.

Dear participants,

Tomorrow, Friday, September 09, the entry exam takes place on-site at the campus.

Since you are registered for the course in the CMS, you are automatically registered for the entry exam. (This is different from the exam registration in the LSF, which is possible and necessary for you to do until Monday, September 12).

Bring your student ID card and a photo ID card (e.g., passport) to the entry exam. No aids are allowed. Use only document-proof pens (no pencils!). Red or green pens are not permitted.

The tasks are formulated in English and German. You can provide your answers in either of both languages.

The entry exam is going to take place in multiple lecture halls simultaneously. Admittence to the lecture halls is at 09:15; make sure to be in front of the assigned lecture hall on time. The assignment of participants to lecture halls was done according to the first letter of your surname (i.e., the surname used here in the CMS):

First letter A-G: Günter-Hotz lecture hall, building E2.2

First letter H-N: HS I, building E2.5

First letter O-R: HS 001, building E1.3

First letter S-T: HS 002, building E1.3

First letter U-Z: HS III, building E2.5

You can also see which lecture hall you have been assigned to on your personal status page in the CMS.

In case of illness, please inform us immediately by e-mail to sopra@lists.se.cs.uni-saarland.de and submit a medical certificate as soon as possible.

Good luck, and see you tomorrow!

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants,

Tomorrow, there will be only one lecture in the first lecture time slot (09:30 to 11:00). In the second lecture time slot (11:30 to 13:00), you have the possibility to work on the tasks of a mock exam.

For on-site participants of the lecture, we highly recommend to bring a laptop to view the tasks, as well as pen and paper such that you can work on these tasks. During this time slot, you can ask questions of clarification; online participants can use the Q&A of tomorrow's second live event in MS Teams. Possible solutions for the tasks of the mock exam will be discussed in the regular tutorials in the afternoon.

In addition, there will be an additional on-site office hour / tutorial for all students tomorrow from 16:15 to 18:00 in lecture hall 002 in building E1.3. In this additional office hour / tutorial, we will cover the topics from tomorrow's tutorial and you also have the possibility to ask questions about the topics of the whole lecture, of course.

Best,
The SE-Lab team

Dear participants of the Software Engineering Lab,

We have uploaded a document on organizational matters in the materials, which describes the schedule of this year's Software Engineering Lab in more detail. Please read this document carefully.

The first lecture of the Software Engineering Lab will begin on Monday (Sep. 05) at 09:30. You can participate either on-site in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall (building E2.2) or online via MS-Teams Live Event (the link will be availble in the schedule in the CMS on Monday).

Best regards,
The SE-Lab team