After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

Technical and Methodological Knowledge

• support configuration management during software engineering,
• describe systematic approaches for configuration management and exemplary configuration management tools.

Cognitive and Practical Skills

• use configuration specification languages,
• implement such specified variability during program construction,
• apply techniques of quality assurance in configurable applications.

Social and Personal Skills

• communicate variability with system administrators.

Configuration management is a cross-cutting concern which is important during the whole life cycle of software. In the lecture we discuss:

1. architecture of configuration access
2. configuration specification languages
3. configuration integration
4. configuration file formats, command-line arguments, environment variables
5. configuration management tools
6. strategies for validation and modularization
7. strategies for reduction of misconfiguration
8. early detection of misconfiguration
9. configuration as user interface
10. design of configuration

The VU will be held in distance learning: 

• synchronous online meeting per week
• asynchronous lecture videos and readings
• homeworks
• team exercises
• project
• presentation
• TUWEL as main communication channel

We will meet almost every Wednesday 9h c.t.-11h online at https://bbb.libelektra.org/b/mar-mfi-56f-mty. The preliminary talk will be in the first meeting on 9.3.2022 at 9h c.t.

ECTS-Breakdown

• 2h preliminary talk
• 15h team exercises
• 15h homework
• 19h for preparing and visiting lectures
• 24h project, report and presentation

= 75 hours working time (3 ECTS)

The grade is calculated by the individual assessments with the following balance:

30%: homeworks

30%: team exercises

30%: project

10%: presentation

A positive grade requires the positive assessment of all parts. Following grades will be issued genügend (4) for more than 50%, befriedigend (3) for more than 62,5%, gut (2) for more than 75% and sehr gut (1) for more than 87,5% of the reached points in the assessments.

If the registration does not work, please write an email with your student number to markus.raab@complang.tuwien.ac.at.

Will be published in TUWEL.

From previous term: slides and book (for further reading).

Before participating in the course students must be able to...

Technical and Methodological Knowledge

• describe Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) software engineering processes,
• describe typical sources of errors in non-configurable programs.

Cognitive and Practical Skills

• program in one of these languages: Java, C, C++, Python, Go, Lua, Rust or Ruby,
• use interfaces between applications and operating systems.

Social and Personal Skills

• participate in Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities,
• present technical content.

Required preceding courses: none