We are co-hosting the 2nd Workshop on Continuous Software Engineering together with RWTH Aachen and FAU Nürnberg. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss innovative solutions, ideas and experiences in the area of continuous integration and continuous delivery including workflows, technologies, architecture, testing and culture. We solicit full papers (up to 8 pages) presenting original and evaluated research and short papers (up to 4 pages) describing novel ideas, identified challenges and experience reports. The workshop will take place on February 21, 2017 in Hanover, Germany, in conjunction with the Software Engineering conference 2017. You can find a detailed description of the topics covered and the call for papers can be found on the CSE17 website. We are looking forward to your paper submissions until January 8, 2017 (extended) and great discussions during the workshop!

In the upcoming winter semester 2016/17, we will teach a completely new course Essentials of Applied Software Engineering (EASE) as Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The course focuses on software development with exercises on analysis, design, modeling, programming and testing, but also includes project management and design patterns topics.

The course has a special emphasis on active, blended and experiential learning, mixing theory in online videos with online exercises to create an interactive learning experience for participating students. Therefore, we are looking for motivated tutors who help us in the preparation of videos and online exercises.

If you are interested, please write an application email with motivation, CV and TUM Online grade report to Stephan Krusche.

The iPraktikum is once again coming to the finish line. We are happy to invite you to the Client Acceptance Test (CAT), which will take place on Thursday, 14 July, 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm in the Interims Lecture Hall 1. We will also live stream the complete event: https://livestream.com/ios/16CAT.

Each of the 12 teams will give a presentation about the functionality of their App, a demonstration of the main features and the final status of their project. Check the schedule and other practical information here.

In February members of our chair organised the 1st International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems in the Context of Smart Cities (CPSSC'16) and the Workshop on Continuous Software Engineering (CSE’16) as part of SE 2016. Andreas Seitz and Constantin Scheuermann were responsible for the CPSSC’16 and Lukas Alperowitz together with colleagues from the RWTH Aachen were in charge for CSE’16.

The results of the CPSSC Workshop have been video recorded and are available online.

As part of the opening session, Volker Hartkopf held the keynote of the CPSSC´16 about "Campuses as Living & Lived Laboratories for Smart Cities".

After a short break, the scientific program started with the following contributions:

• Effective Visulization and Control of the Indoor Envionmental Quality in Smart Buildings - Nadine von Frankenberg Und Ludwigsdorff, Sebastian Peters and Bernd Brügge
• Scenario-based Specification of Car-to-X systems - Joel Greenyer, Daniel Gritzner, Nils Glade, Timo Gutjahr and Florian Koenig
• Urban Energy Computing: a Multi-Layered Approach - Ardeshir Mahdavi, Stefan Glawischnig and Neda Ghiassi.

As part of the closing session a panel discussion with well-known experts in the area of Smart Cities, Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Office Environments was organized. The scope of the discussion was "The Future of Smart Cities", which was moderated by Prof. Bernd Brügge, Ph.D.

Members of the Panel Discussion:

• Prof. Dr.h.c. Volker Hartkopf, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
• Oliver Juli, Aspern Smart City Research
• Prof. Dr. Ardeshir Mahdavi, Technische Universität Wien
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Monika Sturm, Leibniz Universität Hannover

The entire panel discussion as been recorded and is available online https://cloudbruegge.in.tum.de/index.php/s/V5eH9vH42wD0X3E.

Special thanks goes to Ruth Demmel and Andreas Jung for their great support during and after the CPSSC workshop, 2016.

 We will offer the iPraktikum again in the coming winter semester! We are looking for participants in various roles. Would you like to learn about software engineering in an applied setting while developing a mobile application? Apply as a Developer for the practical course iPraktikum.

If you have already participated in a project at our chair, consider applying for the seminar/practical course Agile Project Management. In this course, you get to take on the role of a Coach and learn about agile project management in a real project.

Are you an experienced iOS developer? Apply to be a Tutor in our introductory courses and teach beginners how to develop in Swift as participant in the (pro)seminar Teaching iOS. You prepare an interactive tutorial and help students during the course.

If you have any questions feel free to contact Lukas Alperowitz or ios (at) in.tum.de.

We are proud to announce the launch of BSB Navigator to the AppStore. BSB Navigator is an indoor navigation app for the Bavarian State Library, developed in cooperation with Bokowsky + Laymann during iOS Praktikum in summer term 2015 .

Bavarian State Library (BSB) is one of the largest libraries in Germany and offers diverse services and facilities to more than 3000 visitors per day. Finding different facilities in the large historical building with about 30,000 square meter on 5 floors is difficult, specially for new visitors. The BSB Navigator app solves this problem by offering several features such as interactive maps, indoor navigation, and guided tours. A team of 8 students developed the app during the practical course iPraktikum in summer term 2015. The project not only involved the development of the app, but also setting up a beacon-based indoor navigation infrastructure with more than 240 beacons and signal measurements in the whole coverage area. Only hours after the release, the app received a substantial media coverage, among others in Süddeutsche Zeitung and heise.de.

In the iPraktikum WS15/16 more than 100 students worked in real projects with 10 companies. Find out more and watch videos of the final presentations on our project page!

iCATCH	iWash	CHEST	Informing
Ignite V-Eye	Quartett Home	Ignite Bucket Fit	BMW Factory
Neptun	Bosch Dots	Magic Touch

We will teach two courses in the summer semester 2016: (1) Introduction to Software Engineering (EIST) has a focus on software development with exercises on analysis, design, modeling, programming and testing. (2) Project Organization and Management (POM) has a focus on software project management with exercises on agile methods, meeting management, retrospectives, release management, continuous integration and continuous delivery

Both courses have special emphasis on blended and experiential learning, mixing theory with exercises. We expect more than 1000 students in EIST and more than 400 students in POM. Therefore, we are looking for motivated tutors who help us in the preparation and conduction of these exercises. If you are interested in EIST, please write an email to Jan Knobloch. If you are interested in POM, please write an email to Stephan Krusche.

We will offer the iPraktikum again in the coming summer semester! We are looking for participants in various roles. Would you like to learn about software engineering in an applied setting while developing a mobile application? Apply as a Developer for the practical course iPraktikum.

If you have already participated in a project at our chair, consider applying for the seminar/practical course Advanced Project Management. In this course, you get to take on the role of a Coach and learn about agile project management in a real project.

Are you an experienced iOS developer? Apply to be a Tutor in our introductory courses and teach beginners how to develop in Swift as participant in the (pro)seminar Teaching iOS. You prepare an interactive tutorial and help students during the course.

If you have any questions feel free to contact Dora Dzvonyar or ios (at) in.tum.de

Since 1978, the technical and scientific associations of the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation honor young nature scientists and engineers. The young scientists receive a honor medal and a certificate, and are invited to join events of the foundation. The Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) recommended Stephan Krusche as young scientist for his successful research in the area of agile development and continuous software engineering.

The Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation followed the recommendation. Prof. Dr. Joachim Ullrich, the chairmen of the foundation, honored Stephan in addition to four other researchers in natural sciences as young scientist 2015 in a colloquium in Berlin. Stephan had the opportunity to present his research about agile development and continuous software engineering to the members of the foundation.

Stephan is the third researcher of the Chair for Applied Software Engineering who received the award. He follows Timo Wolf and Walid Maalej who received the award in 2007 and 2010.