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

1. Estimate the quality of the source code of a software project with SonarQube
2. Document the structure and modularization of a software with UML diagrams
3. Estimate the effort/costs of a software with the COCOMO-2 method

Exercise supplementary software engineering skills in the context of large open source projects: static source code quality management, documentation for roundtrip engineering and effort/cost estimation. All three skills are important for software development in large projects/teams.

ECTS breakdown: 2h pre-lecture meeting + kick-off presentation, 48h report/project paper (milestones: project selection, source code analysis, UML documentation, COCOMO-2 effort estimation), 24h presentation (milestones: intermediate hand-in, presentation), 1h organization = 75h total.

• Kick-off presentation for setting the context, outlining the course organization and selected methods
• Application of established software development tools for source code analysis and documentation
• Group work and usage of well-known programming languages (Java, Python)
• Usage of open source software and focus on free license models

• Participation in the kick-off presentation
• Participation in the online forum
• Quality of the report on a selected software project
• Presentation of the results in a seminar

• Programming in Java and/or Python
• Ideally, some software engineering project experience