Available Seminar Topics (Spring 2019)

• Executable graph model editor in Bloc (Oscar Nierstrasz/Nitish Patkar)
• bc on Truffle (Boris Spasojević/Manuel Leuenberger)
• Charting the Pharo ecosystem (Manuel Leuenberger)
• Identification of the class responsibility information from the Pharo class comments (Pooja Rani)
• Engineering solution to build successful TV series (Nitish Patkar)
• Outlining the state-of-the-art of requirements elicitation tools (Nitish Patkar)
• Analyzing UML model evolution within software projects (Nitish Patkar)
• Investigating password policies of web services (Pascal Gadient)
• Learning from nature: How nature resolves security issues (Pascal Gadient)
• Investigation of apps Android AIDL use (Pascal Gadient)
• Injecting Javascript into Android apps (Mohammad Ghafari)
• The myth of test coverage (Mohammad Ghafari)
• JavaScript in the relational database (Boris Spasojević)

Other available projects

• Analyzing the inconsistency between comments and source code in Pharo (Pooja Rani)
• LiteratureResearcher on Steroids (Manuel Leuenberger)
• Running Smalltalk on WebAssembly (Manuel Leuenberger/Olivier Flückiger)
• Searching code examples in IDE using natural language queries (Pooja Rani)
• Interactive visualizations for debugging (Pascal Gadient)
• Migration from insecure to secure API uses (Pascal Gadient)
• Improvement of Security Smell detections and evaluation on Android practitioners (Pascal Gadient)
• Predicting insecure code in answers of Q&A web sites (Pascal Gadient)
• Real time classification of, and adaptation to programmer tasks in IDEs (Pascal Gadient)
• Targeted attacks supported by recovered data structures of web API's (Pascal Gadient)
• File access monitoring for Android (Mohammad Ghafari)
• Tracking sensitive GUI inputs (Mohammad Ghafari)
• Using human expertise to guide security analysis (Mohammad Ghafari)
• Schizophrenic Classes (Manuel Leuenberger)
• Test name recommendation (Mohammad Ghafari)
• Dissecting the structure of a unit test case (Mohammad Ghafari)

No longer available projects

• *extending-the-integrated-literature-research-environmentile--- (/staff/ManuelLeuenberger*)
• Augmenting Dependencies with Method Nullability Data (Manuel Leuenberger)
• Automatically Collecting Source Code for API Usage Analysis (Manuel Leuenberger)
• Stakeholder friendly Visual scenario builder (Nitish Patkar)
• Mining StackOverflow to understand developer concerns regarding domain modelling (Nitish Patkar)
• SVC: The Software Visualization Corpus (Leonel Merino)
• IDE plugin for viewing API usage rules (Claudio Corrodi)
• Immersive 3D Collaborative Software Visualization (Leonel Merino)
• Lightweight Visualization Engine for Unity (Leonel Merino)
• Pervasive Visualization in Augmented Reality for Software Monitoring (Leonel Merino)
• Analyzing Duck Typing (Oscar Nierstrasz, Nevena Milojković)

Currently running (taken) Seminar Topics (Autumn 2018)

• Investigating developer’s questions using web scraping (Pooja Rani)
• Scriptable markdown pretty printer using GraalVM native-image (Boris Spasojević)
• Domain specific Requirements Elicitation (RE) -- a user-centric approach (Nitish Patkar)
• Abusing HTML5 permissions on browsers (Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand)
• Exploring different programming languages in Android projects (Pascal Gadient)

Past Seminar Topics (Spring 2018)

• Derive the contextual information from developer's questions (Pooja Rani)
• Polyglot development using GraalVM - Twitter analysis (Boris Spasojević)
• Compiling a higher-level language to WebAssembly (Manuel Leuenberger / Olivier Flückiger)
• Strings Attached (Haidar Osman)
• Android Studio plug-in for code reviews (Pascal Gadient)
• Privacy concerns in public web APIs (Pascal Gadient)
• Type hints usage in Python projects (Nevena Milojković)
• Plugin for Moose to Analyse Natural Language Questions (Pooja Rani)

Past Seminar Topics (Autumn 2017)

• Polyglot development using GraalVM - Memgen (Boris Spasojević)
• Studying state of the art in Android ransomware detection (Mohammad Ghafari)
• VISON: Software Visualization Ontology (Leonel Merino)
• An LLVM backend for sourir (Olivier Flückiger)
• Bibliography PDF crawler (Claudio Corrodi)
• Identifying method argument types from method tests (Nevena Milojković)
• Compiling Java to Smalltalk Bytecode: The Tooling (Manuel Leuenberger, Yuriy Tymchuk)