Masterseminar Reproducibility of Scientific Results

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Beschreibung

Content

A good amount of software-engineering research consists of the creation of software or its analysis. The software and data that are created by researchers in this process are referred to as “research artifacts”. These artifacts are useful in two ways. First, other researchers can reproduce the reported research results. That means that, in theory, anyone having access to the research artifact should be able to observe the same results as reported by the researchers. Second, other researchers can reuse these artifacts in their own research.

The goal of this seminar is to learn how to use and assess artifacts from software engineering and programming language research.

In this process students will acquire basic skills for conducting reproducible scientific re­search, which will be useful for their final projects and further academic careers. They will learn how to perform a reproduction study, document their work, write a report, and present their findings.

Students will perform a reproduction study on a given set of already published artifacts. Their main tasks are to
- verify that published research artifacts are still available and usable,
- read the related publications,
- follow the documentation of the artifacts to reproduce the studies’ results, and
- report the findings.

Lecturers

Process

This online course will consist of 3 phases.

  1. Reading lectures: four online sessions (one per week) in which students will read and discuss relevant publications on artifacts evaluation to gain knowledge on the topic and relevant skills to perform the reproduction study.

  2. Reproduction study: independent work in which each student is given a set of publications with artifacts. Students will document their independent work in lab reports and present the individual reproduction results. A weekly office hour will be offered for discussions on practical issues that students may be facing.

  3. Report and presentation: Students will write a final report based on their experimental work documented in the lab report from phase 2. Additionally, they will prepare a 10 minutes presentation.

Requirements

Students should be interested in reading and understanding scientific publications. A healthy degree of scepticism is beneficial.

This seminar is in English.

Institut
Institut für Informatik
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Kursadministration
Kursteilnehmer:innen
13 von 12
Zentralanmeldung
Hauptseminare (Master)
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