This seminar introduces students to the latest research trends that help to improve various aspects of software quality.
Topics cover the following areas of research: Compilers, domain-specific languages, concurrency, formal methods, performance optimization, program analysis, program generation, program synthesis, testing, tools, verification
Objective
At the end of the course, the students should be:
- familiar with a broad range of key research results in the area as well as their applications.
- know how to read and assess high quality research papers
- be able to highlight practical examples/applications, limitations of existing work, and outline potential improvements.
Content
The course will be structured as a sequence of presentations of high-quality research papers, spanning both theory and practice. These papers will have typically appeared in top conferences spanning several areas such as POPL, PLDI, OOPSLA, OSDI, ASPLOS, SOSP, AAAI, ICML and others.
Literature
The publications to be presented will be announced on the seminar home page at least one week before the first session.
Prerequisites / Notice
Papers will be distributed during the first lecture.
Performance assessment
Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)