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Course: Configuration Management

Date: Wednesdays from 9am to 1pm

Room: 317

Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cm-2018.1 (important: all students should subscribe to this group)

Grading

Score = (2 x Paper Presentations + Discussions + 2 x Term Paper + 2 x Seminars + Paper Reviews) / 8

APPROVED

(Presence >= 75%) AND (Score >= 6)

SUPPLEMENTARY TEST

(Undergrad Student) AND (Presence >= 75%) AND (4 <= Score < 6)

Groups

All activities can be performed in groups of two for undergrad students. Groups should be established in the first week and remain the same until the end of the course. All grad students (MS and Ph.D.) should perform all activities individually.

Paper Presentations

The second half of the classes (check schedule section) is dedicated to the presentation of papers read during the week (around 30 minutes), followed by questions and discussions. All students are supposed to read all papers, but only a predefined student/group presents each paper. By the end of the presentation, all students are supposed to ask questions and discuss about the paper. Usually, each student/group presents around four papers during the whole course. Please, send me the list of papers you want to present as soon as possible (list at least 5, sorted by preference). The assignment is based on a “first come, first served” strategy.

The papers are available at our Facebook group. Please, subscribe to our group to download the papers.

1st reading:

[Tayane] Estublier, J., “Software Configuration Management: a Roadmap”, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), The Future of Software Engineering, p. 279-289, 2000.

[Henrique] Bersoff, E. H., “Elements of Software Configuration Management”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. SE-10, n. 1, p. 79 - 87, 1984.

2nd reading:

[Cristiane] Chacon S., “Chapter 1: Getting Started”, Pro Git, 2nd ed., 2014.

[Henrique] Chacon S., “Chapter 2: Git Basics”, Pro Git, 2nd ed., 2014.

3rd reading:

[Felipe] Chacon S., “Chapter 3: Git Branching”, Pro Git, 2nd ed., 2014.

[Leonardo + Lucas] Chacon S., “Chapter 5: Distributed Git”, Pro Git, 2nd ed., 2014.

4th reading:

[Henrique & Leonardo + Lucas] Chacon S., “Chapter 10: Git Internals”, Pro Git, 2nd ed., 2014.

5th reading:

[Henrique & Leonardo + Lucas] Conradi, R. and Westfechtel, B., “Version Models for Software Configuration Management”, ACM Computing Surveys, v. 30, n. 2, p. 232-282, 1998.

6th reading:

[Felipe] Hunt, J., McIlroy, M., “An Algorithm for Differential File Comparison”, Bell Laboratories, 1976.

[Cristiane]Miller, W., Myers, E., “A File Comparison Program”, Software: Practice and Experience, v. 15, n. 11, p. 1025-1040, 1985.

7th reading:

[Cristiane] Mens, T., “A State-of-the-Art Survey on Software Merging”, IEEE Transactions Software Engineering, v. 28, n. 5, p. 449-462, 2002.

[Tayane] Dig, D., Manzoor, K., Johnson, R., Nguyen, T., “Effective Software Merging in the Presence of Object-Oriented Refactorings”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. 34, n. 3, p. 321 - 335, 2008.

8th reading:

[Felipe] Appleton, B., Berczuk, S., Cabrera, R., Orenstein, R., “Streamed Lines: Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development”, Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP), 1998.

9th reading:

[Cristiane] Bird, C., Rigby, P. C., Barr, E. T., Hamilton, D. J., German, D. M., & Devanbu, P. “The promises and perils of mining git”, International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), p. 1-10, 2009.

[Tayane] Kalliamvakou, E., Gousios, G., Blincoe, K., Singer, L., German, D. M., & Damian, D. “The promises and perils of mining github”, International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), p. 92-101, 2014.

10th reading:

[Leonardo + Lucas & Tayane] Estublier, J., Leblang, D., van der Hoer, A., Conradi, R., Clemm, G., Tichy, W., Wiborg-Weber, D., “Impact of Software Engineering Research on the Practice of Software Configuration Management”, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), v. 14, n. 4, p. 1-48, 2005.

Discussion

Every student/group that is not in charge of a given presentation should be prepared to ask questions, provide comments, and answer questions about the paper being presented. The deepness of the questions, the quality of the discussion, and the intensity of the interaction will be considered.

Term Paper

Each student/group should select a theme for the term project in the first weeks. This term project may reflect the application of CM in some field, the use of some technique to support CM, mining and visualization of CM repositories, or an study about some advanced CM technique. The theme should be explained to the professor before the beginning of the research.

As a result, a five-page term paper should be written according to the ACM format – use the ACM_SigConf template. This paper should present the motivation and goal of the work, the related work, the obtained results, and final considerations.

The submission of term papers will follow a conference paper submission procedure. We will emulate a mini-conference using a real conference management software: EasyChair. Click here to submit your term paper (please, check the schedule section about the expected submission date).

Obs.: delays in the submission of term papers will be charged with 1 point per day.

Seminars

The course has three moments specifically reserved to present the ongoing Term Project (check the schedule). It is possible to use slides and whiteboard during the presentations, and each presentation should take around 30 minutes. The first seminar is dedicated to understand the context of the work and the work methodology/goals. The second seminar focuses on showing the progress of the work. At this moment some partial but concrete result should be presented. Finally, the third seminar is the final presentation of the work, and should include a deep discussion of the obtained results.

Paper Reviews

As previously mentioned, we are going to simulate a conference in this course. The students will submit their term papers and also act as members of the program committee. Consequently, each student is supposed to review term papers of other three students. The reviews will not be used to grade the term papers, but to grade the capability of students in criticizing and providing deep feedback to other work.

Click here to write the reviews of papers assigned to you. Select the menu uff-cm-2018-1 and choose Change Role. Select the Review role and access the Reviews menu, clicking at My Papers. You should be able to see all papers assigned to you.

Obs.: delays in the submission of papers reviews will be charged with 1 point per day.

Presence

According to the Undergrad and Grad rules, the minimal presence is 75% of the classes (Art. 80, §14 and Art. 20, respectively).

Schedule

Date	Activity	Deliverable
14/03/2018	Lecture - Course outline
21/03/2018	Lecture - Introduction to CM Paper presentation (1st reading)
28/03/2018	Lecture - CM Foundations Paper presentation (2nd reading)
04/04/2018	Seminar (1st round)
11/04/2018	Lecture - CM Foundations Paper presentation (3rd reading)
18/04/2018	No class
25/04/2018	Lecture - CM Foundations Paper presentation (4th reading)
02/05/2018	Paper presentation (5th reading) Paper presentation (6th reading)
09/05/2018	Seminar (2st round)
16/05/2018	Lecture - Diff Lecture - Branching Paper presentation (7th reading)
23/05/2018	Lecture - Branching Paper presentation (8th reading)
30/05/2018	No class (ICSE)
06/06/2018	Lecture - presentation of papers published in SBES 2014 and FSE 2016 Paper presentation (9th reading)
13/06/2018	Lecture - presentation of papers published in CSMR 2012 and SEKE 2014 Paper presentation (10th reading)
20/06/2018	Seminar (last round)	Term paper (submitted via Easychair)
27/06/2018	Supplementary test (undergrad only)	Reviews (submitted via Easychair)
04/07/2018	Grades review at room 528

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