One strategy in coming up with a topic could be to survey current papers in your field of interest with regard to their "Future work" sections (which many tend to have).
You could use Google scholar to come up with some good start points, or focus on high reputation conferences (ACM OOPSLA/SPLASH might be a good one for your interest, in fact any proceedings of a conference organized by ACM or IEEE). Or you randomly browse arxiv.org ?
And one other thing, I just recently read a book "Langlebige Software-Architekturen" by Carola Liliental (I'm assuming that you are not only based in Berlin, but actually speak German), which I found to be quite interesting. It describes a method of architecural analysis and what conclusions can be drawn on how to improve a system in the long term. It was based on a lot of case studies of real world (read: proprietary, closed source, enterprisy) systems. What lacked on was a solid foundation, both theoretically as well as empirically. Although, providing that might be a bit of an overkill for the standard 30 ects / 6 month Master thesis...
Out of curiosity, is it a degree program of Fernuni Hagen or another german institution?
Hey Fabian, thank you for this advice! I already had a look into arxiv.org and found some interesting papers!
And yes, I am german :-D I think I have seen a talk from Carola Liliental where she talks about that book. It sounds interesting to look at it without the real world studies. At the moment I am always assuming that I need some real world examples to write about, but maybe that is not the case. I'll definitely look into that and see if it's really an overkill or maybe doable :-).
I'm enrolled in a computer science master study program with the Universities in Trier, Koblenz and Fulda. But I have heard, that Fernuni Hagen is the better program :-P.
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One strategy in coming up with a topic could be to survey current papers in your field of interest with regard to their "Future work" sections (which many tend to have).
You could use Google scholar to come up with some good start points, or focus on high reputation conferences (ACM OOPSLA/SPLASH might be a good one for your interest, in fact any proceedings of a conference organized by ACM or IEEE). Or you randomly browse arxiv.org ?
And one other thing, I just recently read a book "Langlebige Software-Architekturen" by Carola Liliental (I'm assuming that you are not only based in Berlin, but actually speak German), which I found to be quite interesting. It describes a method of architecural analysis and what conclusions can be drawn on how to improve a system in the long term. It was based on a lot of case studies of real world (read: proprietary, closed source, enterprisy) systems. What lacked on was a solid foundation, both theoretically as well as empirically. Although, providing that might be a bit of an overkill for the standard 30 ects / 6 month Master thesis...
Out of curiosity, is it a degree program of Fernuni Hagen or another german institution?
Hey Fabian, thank you for this advice! I already had a look into arxiv.org and found some interesting papers!
And yes, I am german :-D I think I have seen a talk from Carola Liliental where she talks about that book. It sounds interesting to look at it without the real world studies. At the moment I am always assuming that I need some real world examples to write about, but maybe that is not the case. I'll definitely look into that and see if it's really an overkill or maybe doable :-).
I'm enrolled in a computer science master study program with the Universities in Trier, Koblenz and Fulda. But I have heard, that Fernuni Hagen is the better program :-P.