Like every year we will show a selection of tools that are useful for
On June 11, we again had a jRobots event.
For this event, Wolfgang Scholz of iteratec and Raymund Fülöp of Cipsoft came to Passau to hold the competition. Again, the fights were interesting due to a changed ruleset of the framework, which caused the participants to think of new algorithms. New features were a new weapon and a different behaviour of the sensors.
On June, 13th, 2016 three PhD students of Professor Apel’s Chair of Software Engineering visited us: Alexander Grebhahn, Claus Hunsen, and Andreas Stahlbauer. All three gave us an introduction into their research topics.
The first talk by Alexander Grebhahn was about non-functional properties and optimization. It is a significant topic in the context of Configurable Software Systems (CSS) because of the combinatorial explosion of the number of possible configurations. He presented different approaches to evaluate the performance of the different configurations to us.
On June 30th, two penetration testers of ATOS, Alex and Stephan, visited us. About 50 people joined the talk.
While Alex explained the backgrounds and methods to us, Stephan worked as the attacker. The took a simulated web shop as their example and were looking for weaknesses in it. The started with a cross-site-scripting attack in order to get the admin’s session; combined with a cross-site-request-forgery, the web page was manipulated and some bugs were shown.
After last year’s exciting talk we had the pleasure of having Achim Sonntag of Micro-Epsilon again for a talk. This time his talk was on automated detection of paint defects with the reflectCONTROL system.
He started with an introduction in the structure and work of the global acting company, Micro-Epsilon. Cooperations with different universities, for example the institute FORWISS at the University of Passau, are very interesting.
Besides their current orders, the main focus of the talk was reflectCONTROL, a roboter-based system to detect paint defects on cars.
Evaluating the work done for a seminar paper, a thesis, or even a scientific publication often forces students to present a large amount of data in a consistent and appropriate way. Doing so, one will encounter many pitfalls due to the complexity of the task. It can be a long-running and frustrating process to find out, which way works the best. Although, we cannot provide universally valid rules, we want to give some hints and guidelines with this work. Therefore, we present formal aspects, packages and tools, that are helpful when presenting the evaluation results and data in general.
Dass git ein mächtiges Werkzeug ist, davon wurden am Montag dem 25.4. alle Anwesenden überzeugt, als es hieß “Git - better commit than sorry”. Florian hielt einen umfassenden Vortrag, bei dem jeder etwas dazulernen konnte. Am Anfang wurden für alle git-Neulinge die Basics vorgestellt, auf die dann im Laufe des Vortrags immer wieder aufgebaut wurde. So wurden neben dem normalen Arbeitsablauf mit git auch erweiterte Szenarien vorgestellt und einige Interna, wie der baumartige Aufbau der Commits selber.
Slides of the award presentation (german): here
By now it’s already a small tradition: the award-winning programming advent calendar of the IEEE Student Branch Passau. The 4th time in a row there will be a daily programming task set during advent time. Everyone may participate and the are cool prizes waiting.
Starting from the first day of December there will be a new task behind the door every day. These tasks include problems from various fields of computer science and range from easy to hard.
Last Thursday, 19th of November, we have had the honor of recieving an all surrounding talk about the topic Open Source Development, reaching from what license to use over the steps how a project is changed and developed over time and finally how to distribute your package to the rest of the world.
Therefor the both ex-members of the IEEE Student Branch Passau went further into detail about Version Control Systems (like GitHub for example), how to version your process correctly and keep track of the changes.
The IEEEXtreme is a yearly international programming competition
hosted by IEEE, where students all over the world try to solve programming challenges over the course of 24 hours. Four teams of three students form Passau took part in this year’s
competition. Further we were joined by two teams from the neighboring student branch at the OTH Regensburg.
To see our participants at work, cracking down on the problems (and
vice versa), watch this timelapse.
