2019-015 - Kateryna Prokhorova - Master Thesis
A Framework for Cost-aware Combinatorial Testing Combinatorial testing is a technique to detect faults caused by interactions of several parameters. Most algorithms that generate test suites for combinatorial testing are developed with the intent to minimize the number of test cases. Due to this, the generated suites are relatively… Read more
2018-006 - Stefan Ossendorf - Master Thesis
Model-driven Test Script Generation from Abstract Test Data Models Application systems represent an important group of software systems in today’s companies. One main characteristic of these systems is their usage of databases to store customer or product information. However, the databases can add additional complexity to the testing activities… Read more
2018-002 - Philipp Franke - Bachelor Thesis
DEVELOPMENT OF A DEPLOYMENT AGENT FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS Over the last decades, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) becomes more and more popular within the software development industry. However, applying CI/CD to embedded projects can be challenging. One critical challenge is the volatile environment Internet of Things devices… Read more
2018-001 - Sebastian Rabenhorst - Master Thesis
Motivation Aspera offers strategic software license management solutions that are supported by SmartTrack. SmartTrack is a software solution that allows automated software license management and optimization for many different software products. In this thesis we will focus on the distribution of Microsoft SQL Server licenses in single and multi-cluster environments,… Read more
2017-015 - Marco Bähr - Bachelor Thesis
When combining different architecture patterns and DevOps software projects become complex in structure. Using a code generator can ease the creation of new projects, but introduces the need to install the tool and keep it up to date. By providing it as a web service only one instance has to… Read more
2017-014 - Julian Schwarz - Bachelor Thesis
IaC has been gaining popularity in recent years, because of its use in being able to maintain many systems with different architectures, software versions and configuration settings, by being faster, more reliable, repeatable and better testable. Since IaC practices treat configuration code similar to software code we should also care… Read more
2017-013 - Benedikt Holmes - Bachelor Thesis
Mining Changes of Build Processes in the Context of Continuous Integration The use of Continuous Integration systems is a widely accepted and modern practice adopted by many open-source software (OSS) developers. As of yet there has been only little in-depth research on the understanding and usage of CI in OSS. Read more
2017-012 - Presha Rajbhandary - Master Thesis
Aspera is a software company mainly based in Aachen. Aspera offers three solutions namely: SmartTrack, SAMi and SLC. It has more than 200 clients and specializes in license management. It assists in the calculation of license demand and creates lots of potentials for saving. It is interesting how customers use… Read more
2017-010 - Jan Döring - Master Thesis
An Architecture for Self-organizing Continuous Delivery Pipelines Attracted by the competitive advantages of being able to release software quickly and reliable, many organizations have adopted Continuous Delivery (CD) practices in recent years. However, both academia and industry have reported on several adoption challenges. One major challenge are the infrastructure… Read more
2017-006 - Jan Thomas - Master Thesis
KISTERS AG – an international company and industry partner of the research group for Software Construction at RWTH Aachen University (SWC) – develops complex and business-critical software solutions. As non-functional properties (NFP) like understandability, maintainability, performance and security are directly influenced by the quality of the underlying software architecture, developing… Read more