Available projects

• SCG Pier migration (Oscar Nierstrasz)
• Android: Investigating the quantity and quality of localizations (Pascal Gadient)
• Android: Understanding the use of code comments (Pascal Gadient)
• Ignorance is not bliss in research (Nitish Patkar)
• Charting the Pharo ecosystem (Manuel Leuenberger)
• Identification of the class responsibility information from the Pharo class comments (Pooja Rani)
• Analyzing UML model evolution within software projects (Nitish Patkar)
• Investigating password policies of web services (Pascal Gadient)
• The myth of test coverage (Dr. Mohammad Ghafari)
• JavaScript in the relational database (Boris Spasojević)
• Building profile for developers using web scraping (Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand)
• 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)
• Android: Improvement of Security Smell detections and evaluation on 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)
• Investigation of apps Android AIDL use (Pascal Gadient)
• File access monitoring for Android (Dr. Mohammad Ghafari)
• Tracking sensitive GUI inputs (Dr. Mohammad Ghafari)
• Using human expertise to guide security analysis (Dr. Mohammad Ghafari)
• Schizophrenic Classes (Manuel Leuenberger)
• Test name recommendation (Dr. Mohammad Ghafari)
• Dissecting the structure of a unit test case (Dr. Mohammad Ghafari)

Assigned Seminar Topics (Autumn 2019)

• A web plugin to harvest the state of the art (Dr. Mohammad Ghafari)
• From user stories to live-documentation (Nitish Patkar)
• Android: Investigating password policies found in Android apps (Pascal Gadient)
• How do the class comments differ in common programming languages? (Pooja Rani)
• Analysing cryptographic questions on online sources (Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand)
• Executable graph modes in Bloc (Oscar Nierstrasz)
• Android: Bypassing HTTPS certificate pinning (Pascal Gadient)

Past Seminar Topics (Spring 2019)

• Outlining the state-of-the-art of requirements elicitation tools (Nitish Patkar)
• bc on Truffle (Boris Spasojević/Manuel Leuenberger)
• Compressing Webassembly: Efficient Stack Usage in a Stack-Based Bytecode (Olivier Flückiger)

Past 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 (Dr. 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)