Software assessment lecture at the University of Bern (slides)

On November 20, I had the pleasure of giving a lecture at the University of Bern on software assessment. The lecture was part of the introduction to software engineering course. You can see the slides below.

I had a great time. It was particularly challenging to talk about the problem of assessment to young students that have hardly seen systems larger than they could easily read. My goal was to entice them to look at future systems not as text, but as intricate data.

To this end, I used the System Attraction view to compare the systems that they produced for the lab part of the lecture. They developed these little projects in teams over the duration of the semester. Furthermore, as there were less project topics than teams, it meant that two or three teams got to work on the same topic. The interesting thing was that even though they only worked for a short amount of time, and even though the projects were well defined, the structure each team produced was radically distinct internal structure.

You can see the slides I used below (including the visualizations).