It’s time for the January exams. Three years ago, my colleague Benoît Vanderose and I created a verification and validation course for the MSc in Software Engineering students. From the start, we both thought we needed a practical exam where students actually perform V&V tasks. So, for our exam, students have to analyze a codebase, read SonarQube reports, refactor code, correct bugs, and write tests. This was quite unusual for them (most courses are evaluated using projects or paper exams), and the students’ reaction three years ago was, let’s say, interesting.

Johan and Simon’s research is a significant step towards the development of an ergonomic and mobile code editor empowered by the Language Server Protocol (LSP) for multi-language support. While code editing is traditionally computer-based, the current technological landscape is witnessing a significant shift toward mobile technologies. Their work not only addresses this shift but also paves the way for a concrete and productive application designed for multi-language development in a single code editor on mobile devices.