1. T-76.5650 Software Engineering Seminar Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) 5 credit units
Mika Mäntylä
Helsinki University of Technology
Software Business and Engineering Institute

2. Objectives Understanding of component based software engineering
Learning to make research work and to present its results
This will help the students on starting their Master’s thesis

3. Target audience Suggested pre-requisites
Both theoretical and practical experience on software projects
T Basic Course in SE
T Software Architecture

4. Contents Lectures (mandatory) Pre-examination Writing the paper
Intro, Basics of component based software engineering
Scientific writing
Guest Lectures Component Platforms
Java & J2EE (Timo Jalonen)
.NET (Aali Alikoski)
Pre-examination
Component software : beyond object-oriented programming,  Szyperski, Clemens, London : Addison-Wesley, 2002
First 10 chapters
1 question from guest lectures
Writing the paper
several intermediate deliveries
Wrap-up session
presentation
opposing

5. Seminar report 0. Choosing a topic
propose your own topic or one of those provided by the organizers to
approaches e.g. literature study or empirical paper
1. Defining research problem, objectives, methods and scope
2. Writing the preliminary annotated table of contents and list of sources
3. Release Candidate
4. Final version

6. Extended seminar Extended seminar study for extra credit (2-3).
The extended seminar study involves empirical work with component software
e.g., comparing the performance of j2ee and .net with similar applications
interviewing industry personnel with solid experience of CBSE.
The extra credits (2-3) will be given under the course code T Special Course in Software Engineering. 

7. Deliveries at milestones
Send each delivery to AND your tutor
PDF, PS, WORD
Subject: T
final versions will be published on the course web page
Use the template provided by the course.
Have a 30 minute meeting with your tutor a couple of days after deliveries 1-3
agree on the exact time with your tutor

8. Wrap-up session 10-15 minutes presentation 10 minutes discussion
PowerPoint or PDF slides
10 minutes discussion
opponent, tutor
Session length is n*25 minutes
in Spektri
Opposing
Objective
analyze the report and present your critique
identify ways to improve the paper
Create one slide where the most important points are summarized
Content of debate
max. 10 minutes
commenting the most important aspects of the report
commenting the most important aspects of the presentation
commenting possible limitations, obscurities and errors
presenting suggestions to improve the paper
presenting alternative solutions
presenting  supplementary material

9. Grading scale 0-5 pre-exam 30 %
final report, presentation & debating 70 %
If the course template is not followed this result –1 in the grade
deliverables 1-3
scale pass/fail
each fail resulting in subtraction of 1 from the grade calculated from pre-exam and the seminar paper

10. Schedule