Hands-On Dependability

Dear HOD students,

due to the small number of potential participants, the re-exam is an oral one. Therefore, we created several slots for which you can register on your student status page. The selection works "first come, first serve" and opens on May 06th at 10:00 and closes one week before the exam on May 24th.

Best regards
The HOD Team

Dear HOD students,

Due to some scheduling issues, the Q&A Session today unfortunately did not take place as planned. We are sorry that we did not inform you earlier. To compensate, we would like to offer you an alternative Q&A Session taking place tomorrow between 10:30 to 11:30.

You can also ask questions via e-mail at all times.

Best regards,
Your HOD Team

Dear HOD students,

You will now find the seating plan for the exam in the dCMS on your personal status page. In case you have not been assigned a seat and think you should have, please contact us immediately.

The examination starts on Thursday (07.04.) at 14:10, please arrive at the lecture hall at 14:03 at the latest. The exam will take 90 minutes and you will not need any additional materials besides a pen, your student id, and the required certificates regarding Covid.

Furthermore, we are required by University regulations to again inform you about the following Covid related regulations:

As the precondition to enter Saarland University is to comply with the 3G rule, this is also the precondition to participate in the exam. This may be checked by the University’s security service. The 3G rule means to be completely vaccinated or recovered or having a negative antigen rapid test (valid 24 hours) or a negative PCR test certificate (valid 48 hours). Attention: People vaccinated only once with “COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen” (Johnson & Johnson) are no longer considered completely vaccinated. Please note: If you fail to provide the proof of your G status upon request your name will be recorded and you must leave the campus immediately. Your exam will be rated as “failed”.

A medical mouth-nose-protection mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask) must be worn during the entire exam. Students who have the typical symptoms of SARS-Cov2 disease will not be allowed to take exams. This does not include students who have a negative daytime test result. Students who have had close contact with a Corona-positive person may only participate in examinations and courses in attendance if they can show sufficient vaccination protection (basic immunization not longer than 3 months or booster vaccination) or convalescent status (not older than 3 months) or vaccination protection after recovery and are asymptomatic (see §4 b Ordinance on Corona Pandemic (VO-CP)).

Students who are unable to take an examination due to segregation (isolation or quarantine) in accordance with the Ordinance on the Control of the Corona Pandemic (VO-CP) may effectively withdraw from the examinations without receiving a failed attempt. The regulations for withdrawal from examinations of the respective valid examination regulations apply. Proof of the withdrawal must be submitted without culpable hesitation.

If you have any questions concerning these regulations, do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,
The HOD Team

Dear HOD students,

We decided to merge the guest lecture tomorrow into the wrap-up session in the afternoon at 15:00, i.e., there will be no lecture at 10:00 tomorrow. As the wrap-up session guest, we will have Prof. Hermanns enlightening us on Quantitative Dependability Evaluation.

Note that there will be an additional online Q&A session before the exam at 5th of April at 14:00. Furthermore, you can ask questions anytime in the forum.

Best regards,
The HOD Team

Dear HOD students,

Here is some important information about the upcoming exam:

• The exam takes place at the 7th of April at 14:00 s.t. in E1.3 HS002.

• Make sure to be registered for the exam, otherwise you will not be able to earn points for this course. If your study program uses LSF/HISPOS, you must register there. Otherwise, you must register in the dCMS.

• The registration deadline for the exam ends tomorrow, 31st of March, at 23:59 CEST.

• Please bring your passport or identity card and your student id.

• The exam will be closed-book and you are not allowed to use a cheat sheet.

Note that the university exam regulations due to Covid are in-force. These regulations include the 3G rule (vaccinated, tested, or recovered) and the necessity to wear a medical face mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask) during the whole examination. You are required to bring all necessary certificates as well as a suitable face mask to the exam. Furthermore, if you have any of the typical Covid symptoms or had contact to a person tested positive (without being fully vaccinated yourself), you are not allowed to take the exam. For further details, see https://www.uni-saarland.de/dezernat/ls/informationen-zum-semesterbetrieb/wintersemester-202122.html.

If you are unsure about any potential symptoms, please consult a doctor. If the doctor decides that you can safely take the exam, you will need to bring a certificate attesting this to the exam.

Best regards,
The HOD Team

Dear HOD students,

We are keen to know more about your experience with this course!

If you haven’t done so already during today’s lecture, please take the time and participate in the QUALIS evaluation:

Lecture: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=134176&p=gin419
Office Hour: https://qualis.uni-saarland.de/eva/?l=1341761&p=awkn32

Thank you very much!

Best regards,
The HOD Team

Dear HOD students,

Our lecturer Andreas fell sick, unfortunately, and this means we will have to improvise a little regarding course setup and orga.

1) Contrary to our prior announcements, the last week will not be in presence but online as before.

2) Maximilian will be responsible for the lectures until Andreas is back.

3) Please direct any questions from now on directly at Gregory or Maximilian.

4) We wish Andreas a speedy and overfull recovery!

Thanks!

Best regards,
The HOD Team

Dear HOD students,

as some of you asked me about registrations: To take the exam, you have to register in LSF one week in advance. If your study program does not use LSF, then please register in our dCMS for the main or re-exam. We already created the registrations that you can find on your profile page.

We also decided (now that our testing infrastructure for the projects works) that we offer additional runs in the last course week, so that you know in advance whether you pass the project or not. Please make use of them to limit the probability that you fail the projects.

Best regards
The HOD team

Dear HOD students,

for those of you that indicated to join the last course week in presence, here are the details: We meet Mo, 28th to Th, 31st in E1.3 HS001 for both plenum (10:00) and office hour (13:00).

On Friday, 1st April, the guest lecture is held from remote, so there is no sense in coming to University.

If you attend in presence, make sure that you comply with the Corona prevention rules.

For those that attend remotely, we sincerely hope that nothing changes (except Andreas' video background).

Best regards
The HOD team

Dear HOD students,

now that we completed U04 in today's lecture, you should be equipped with everything to work on P01 (tough the tidiness tips in U05 could still help). The template can now be found in the dCMS material.

We recommend that you start with it as soon as possible, as it helps you get hands-on experience that goes beyond the small tasks on the worksheets. As mentioned before, P02 and P03 templates will be released later during the course.

We also have a special offer: as mentioned in the first lecture, we do not provide an automated testing environment for you, where there are daily runs and you get feedback (similar to Prog2). Nevertheless, we want to beta test our grading environment, which we also provide to you later. Hence, we will do two manual runs for whoever has already submitted something via dCMS by that time. The times are March 7th at 15:00 and March 11th at 15:00 (Central European Time).

We are looking forward to seeing your first submissions and providing you feedback.

Best regards
The HOD team

Dear HOD Students,

as the coursebook is a living one, being continuously developed, we added a changelog to it. The plan is to create a new version at the end of every day (assuming there is at least one change).

We hope this makes it easier for you to revisit chapters that have been changed in the meantime.

Best regards
The HOD team

Dear HOD students,

The start of HOD is getting closer, and we are really excited to embark on our journey this week's Friday at 10:00 sharp.

Due to the ongoing restrictions, we meet in Zoom, for which you can find the link in our "course room" under materials. We will record no parts of the course, but the material that is presented is made available online. This way, we hope that some of you feel like joining the class with "video on" so that we also see who is attending the course and not just read names. We hope the course becomes a bit more personal this way, although we still must use digital communication means only.

For the last course week (after the two-week break), we are currently figuring out if we can do them in hybrid mode, as restrictions in Germany are lifted by March 20th. We will inform you in time, and hybrid means that you can still attend virtually (may it be for health reasons or because you are not currently in Saarbrücken). We hold the promise we gave earlier that virtual attendance is possible.

With that, we wish you a successful week (good luck with any exams you write) and are looking forward to seeing you on Friday!

Best regards
The HOD-Team