Available Seminar topics (Autumn 2021)

• T1: Implementing a Citation Search Engine in JavaScript (Oscar Nierstrasz)
• T2: Enhancing the User Experience in a Live Coding Environment (Oscar Nierstrasz and Tudor Girba)
• T3: Exploring Platform Independent Code Linting (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• T4: Careful scrutiny of online crypto-related courses (Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand)
• T5: Developing a user interface for a CLI application to classify comments (Pooja Rani)
• T6: Code-comment inconsistency fixes dataset (Nataliia Stulova)

• more topics to be added here

Old Seminar topics (Spring 2021)

• Identify various kinds of information from class comments automatically (Pooja Rani)
• Glue code analysis in open-source projects that use BDD tools (Nitish Patkar)
• Crypto libraries on Stack Overflow (Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand)

Other projects (old)

• Moldable requirements engineering platform (Nitish Patkar)
• How do code documentation efforts spread over class hierarchy? (Pooja Rani)
• Searching code examples in IDE using natural language queries (Pooja Rani)
• Identify the comment issues pointed out in the code review phase (Pooja Rani)
• Android: Investigating the quantity and quality of localizations (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• Android: Understanding the use of code comments (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• Charting the Pharo ecosystem (Manuel Leuenberger)
• Identification of the class responsibility information from the Pharo class comments (Pooja Rani)
• Investigating password policies of web services (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• 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)
• Interactive visualizations for debugging (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• Android: Improvement of Security Smell detections and evaluation on practitioners (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• Predicting insecure code in answers of Q&A web sites (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• Real time classification of, and adaptation to programmer tasks in IDEs (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• Investigation of apps Android AIDL use (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• 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)

Already Assigned Topics

• Living user stories (Nitish Patkar)
• Bringing Agile artifacts closer to the implementation (Nitish Patkar)
• Adherence of class comments to the commenting style guidelines (Pooja Rani)
• Comparison of commenting conventions covered by style guidelines and tools (Pooja Rani)
• Generate Pharo class comments automatically (Pooja Rani)

Past Seminar Topics (Spring 2021)

• Improving dynamic phishing (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• Code-comment inconsistency fixes dataset (Nataliia Stulova)
• Requirements parser, workflow editor, and persistence to git (Nitish Patkar)
• Visualizing Graphs in GT (Manuel Leuenberger and Oscar Nierstrasz)

Past Seminar Topics (Autumn 2020)

• Source code vocabularies (Nataliia Stulova)
• Survey of glue code in BDD tools (Nitish Patkar)
• Analyzing cryptographic vulnerabilities on bug bounty platforms (Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand)
• SCG Pier migration (Oscar Nierstrasz)
• Code-comment inconsistency fixes dataset (Nataliia Stulova)
• Assessing comment quality automatically in Pharo (Pooja Rani)
• HTTPS to HTTP downgrade (Pascal Gadient PhD)

Past Seminar Topics (Autumn 2019)

• A web plugin to harvest the state of the art (Dr. Mohammad Ghafari)
• Moldable scenario builder (Nitish Patkar)
• Android: Investigating password policies found in Android apps (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• 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 PhD)

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 PhD)

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 PhD)
• Privacy concerns in public web APIs (Pascal Gadient PhD)
• 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)