DevEx

While the workstation (with screen, keyboard and mouse as peripherals) has long been the most common installation for computer-intensive employees, the arrival of powerful, versatile tablets and telephones in recent years has overturned this work organization in many professions. Software development, on the other hand, remains very attached to this type of installation. The aim of this thesis is therefore to explore the extent to which recent advances in software engineering (dockerization, static code analysis, etc.) could enable the development of a nomadic code review environment as efficient as the traditional model.

While workstations (including monitors, keyboard and mouse as peripherals) have long been the most common installation for computer-intensive employees, the arrival of powerful, versatile tablets and telephones has been shaking up this organization of work in many professions for some years now. Software development, on the other hand, remains very attached to this type of installation. The aim of this thesis is therefore to explore the extent to which recent advances in software engineering (dockerization, static code analysis, etc.) could enable the development of a nomadic code review environment as efficient as the traditional model.

The use of music to create favorable conditions for development and programming has become common practice (cf. the use of the lo-fi genre and the emergence of the “code-fi” musical genre). Similarly, the use of the sound dimension of a user experience is commonplace in many fields (video games, various control terminals, etc.). The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the sound dimension could be integrated into modern development tools to encourage concentration, attention and/or motivation, depending on the characteristics of the code being worked through (more complex code regions, repetitive tasks, etc.), the context outside the developer (time of day, weather, etc.) and personal preferences.

Fuzz testing, or simply fuzzing, is an automated testing technique aiming at discovering bugs or vulnerabilities of software systems by providing random, invalid, or potential harmful input data. Fuzzing is a black-box testing technique, as typically, fuzzers, i.e. tools running fuzzing, have no access to the source code. Where structured testing will typically be manually written, i.e. developers will write test cases to ensure a system behaves as expected - verification - and fulfils the users’ expectations - validation -, fuzzing tools may employ techniques to generate a range of inputs with minimal manual intervention. However, many open-source or openly-accessible fuzzers have rudimentary user interfaces, so that developers must typically have a good understanding of what software security testing is, as well as understand how specific fuzzers need to be configured for specific software under tests. This project will explore how existing fuzzers could be made more approachable for non-experts. The scope of the project will be restricted to web systems (REST).

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.

Learning to program, and especially understanding it, is a difficult task for newcomers. For this rea- son, aids are provided, such as IDEs, which give them tools to help them avoid syntax and/or semantic errors, depending on the programming languages used. depending on the programming languages used. However, these aids are not always sufficient to understand the written code, and more often than not, they fail to to understand the errors generated and their causes. For this purpose, code comprehension tools are available to help visualize the code. Some advances have even made it possible to use this through virtual reality. That’s why, with the advent of MR, a draft code visualization application has been proposed. This solution, called codeMR, makes it possible to represent code in 3 dimensions following the city’s paradigm, codeCity. To test its viability, an experiment was carried out with 10 people to see if it could a future for understanding code through the mixed reality. The results showed that the solution had the capabilities to help code comprehension. However, improvements to the application are still required to ensure optimal use in this context.

This master thesis investigates how the Language Server Protocol (LSP) can be used to develop a nomad and ergonomic code editor. Mobile devices popularity has significantly increased in the past decade, strengthening the transformation of desktop solutions to mobile ones. However, code editing activities, traditionally carried out on a computer, have not yet found real alternatives to provide a suitable development environment and allow multilanguage support on mobile devices. Previous works focus on finding interaction solution to allow better code editing productivity, mainly adapting the code editor to one single programming language. By integrating the use of language servers through the LSP, we develop new design and interaction solutions to allow multilanguage support in a single mobile code editor. In this thesis, we present a prototype code editor combining interaction solutions found in the literature with LSP functionalities and evaluate it in terms of productivity and usability. This work aims to provide an alternative solution to the traditional desktop development environment on mobile devices, addressing the technological shifts and transforming the way developers may be coding in the future.