Code Quality

This master thesis explores the design and validation of a context management tool integrated into a development environment. Developers constantly use various resources (documentation, terminal, development tools, etc.), which forces them to frequently switch between their development environment and these resources to meet their needs. This often leads to interruptions, distractions, and consequently, a drop in productivity. To address this issue, the study proposes a solution in the form of an extension for the Visual Studio Code IDE, called FlowTabs. This extension brings resources together into a unified interface and uses a relevance algorithm that adapts to the developer’s behavior to suggest the most appropriate resources. User testing has shown that it integrates well into the development environment, offering a satisfactory developer experience, cognitive comfort and effective resource management. This work thus provides an original context management solution, directly embedded in a development environment.

Code Smells have been studied for more than 20 years now. They are used to describe a design 􏰊aw in a program intuitively. In this study, we wish to identify the impact of some of these Code Smells. And, more specifically, their potential impact on Testability. To do this, we will study the state of the research on both Code Smells and Testability. Using those studies, we will define a scope of parameters to de􏰉ne the two concepts. With that information, we will analyse the statistical distribution of our samples and try to understand the relationship between Code Smells and Testability in a corpus of Java projects.